The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1887-07-28
A FAREWELL SHOT.
COmrnde BIundin Shouts Once More for the White
stars, and RESTS His Case"


EprToR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Seeing in
Comrade Harrington's article that he brings
up Johnny Reb 10 help ont the 6th KY, beg
You will allow me to point out some mistakes
of both Harrington and his Confederate friend.
i agree with Comrade Harrington when he
says that serious plumbers have already found
their way into the histories of the war in re-
gard TO the Lookout fight" Right you are,
Comrade Harrington, and the most serious ana
greatest blunder is the one that gives the credit
of first colors on Lookout, Nov. %, 1858, to the
Sth Ky i care not, ComTade Harrington, II
Yanks and Rebs do combine TO take that honor
from the White Stars, for i, as well as others
of the White Stars, know that the oth Ky. col
ors did not reach Point Lookout until after the
colors of the Goth, 111th and 2Sth Pa, and the
division flag reached there. None of the
White Stars ever claimed TO have reached and
crowned the summit of old Lookout at any
time during the fight on the 9th, but we have
claimed aud do yet claim that at daylight on
the morning Of the 18th we crowned the sum-
NIT with our colors.
The Alabama ex-rebel quoted by Comrade
Harrington states that the prisoners captured
by the White Stars in the line of works at the
Craven House were from Walthall's Brigade of
Mississippians j was told by one of the cap
tured party that their brigade was Stevensons
which were on parole from NicksbuTg-their
officers having forced them TO violate their pa
role. This same eX-Confederate says that capt
Wilson aud ID men of the Sth Ky. placed their
colors on Pulpit Rock at sunrise on the morn
ing of Nov. %, 1863 Both Capt. Wilson and
also Capt. Il. J. Wright, the sth KY. historian,
say there were but six picked men that Wilson
took up with him and planted their flag at sun
rise. There was no danger attached 10 such a
| proceeding, for every warlike rebel was four
miles distant on Mission Ridge, and the crown
| ing Of the mountain had already been accom-
/ - mi. u, af Gar-
| ond Brigade of White Stars, and the 2sth Pa,
of the First Brigade, aud also by the division
colOrs
see also an article from one w. l.. Stork, who
| gives his title as Captain and Acting ABIDE
| Camp on Gen. J. w. Geary's staff" i will have
TO call upon some comrade of the White Stars
TO inform me who this Capt. Stork is. was
conyersant with the name and position OF
every officer on Gen. Geary's staff, but can't
bring up in my memory any Capt. Stork. lie
says he saw as much of the fighting at Lookout
as anyone. That may have been correct for
one at the same point of observation that h'
occupied, which was somewhere down neal
Lookout Creek; but the writer being in the
front line of White Stars when they charged
the enemy's works, aud the battle-ground beini
but acres in extent-not miles. / think i coul,
see more than Capt. Stork could from his posi-
ton, fully a fourth of a mile in the rear Again
Stork says il was at daylight on the morning
Of the 25th when he saw the Stars and Stripe
up on the Palisades. He says he does not know
who il was, but is satisfied that he was not
member of the White Stars. Now, as Capt
Wilson and others of the 9Th Ky. claim thei
flag was not thrown TO the breeze until tn
morning sun was peeping over Mission Ridge
the question naturally arises whose flag was !
that Capt. Stork saw at daylight? The ques
ton is answered by saying it was the flag o
the 29th Pa, its coor-bearer having gone u
by the ladders at the spring just around tn
point, followed Immediately by the colOrs Q
the lllth Pa, and then by the colors of my oil
regiment the 2Sth Pa. Gen. GeaTy took tn
26th Pa. colors up himself and all this haT
pened about daylight and before Capt Stork
Orderly got up with the division flag. Lik
Capt. Stork, / speak of only what / saw, an
not what somebody else saw.
i desire 10 say TO the comrades Of the st
) Ky. eft al, who have shown considerable Al
perity toward the White Stars during, til
Lookout controversy, that / am not writin
simply TO see my articles in cold type, but |
/ give honor TO whom honor is justly due; an
as il has gone into history that the honor b.
: longs 10 the White Stars, / will, as the lawyer
: say, rest my case" and drop the eontrovers!
LEWIS BLUSDIY, Co. c, 2Sth Pa, Hulm'
] vile, Pa.